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congregation
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Night, by Elie Wiesel
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- I listened as the inmate's voice rose; it was powerful yet broken, amid the weeping, the sobbing, the sighing of the entire "congregation": "All the earth and universe are God's!"†
p. 67.8 *congregation = people who worship together in the same building
- It was Rabbi Eliahu, who had headed a small congregation in Poland.†
p. 90.6
Definitions:
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(congregation as in: the congregation voted) people who worship together in the same building
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, congregation can reference any group of people, animals, or things collected together.